crested penguin

1. 1.

   small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand

   Synonymsrock hopper

   Broaderpenguin

   Part ofEudyptes

Questions about crested penguin

What does crested penguin mean?

crested penguin means "small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand".

What is another word for crested penguin?

Close synonyms include rock hopper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crested penguin a common word?

crested penguin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.